Building a Modern CMS Platform and Application Platform for a Digital Media Company

Stuff Limited, an independent media company operating across various news and media platforms with a variety of content spanning local, national and global stories, was struggling with their aging CMS platform, a legacy system that incurred significant annual operational costs. Moreover, the outdated system was also fragile, leading to a high rate of change failures within the ecosystem. They came to Material needing a modernized system that would streamline their operations and reduce costs.

We achieved a 30% reduction in cloud and operations costs and constructed a scalable, API-first Drupal multi-tenant system capable of handling up to 200 million requests per day. In addition, we adopted an API-first approach to enable omnichannel experiences for digital publications on both web and mobile platforms and implemented core APIs that reduced CMS-related engineering efforts and enabled faster adaptation to business needs.